HIP7: Process for managing Helium Improvement Proposals

[jamiew]

Authors: @jamiew

Original PR: #22

Rendered view: https://github.com/helium/HIP/blob/master/0007-managing-hip-process.md

Summary from HIP:

Defines an initial process for proposing, discussing, and finalizing improvements to the Helium blockchain using Helium Improvement Proposals (HIPs).

"How a bill becomes a law"

[PaulVMo]

Couple suggestions around status for HIPs:

1. Include descriptions of all statuses, especially the difference between Draft and In Discussion which are not currently defined in the HIP but used in README.md
2. Consider renaming Closed status to Withdrawn or Cancelled to avoid ambiguity as to what Closed means

[jamiew]

Thanks @PaulVMo, will address.

I like withdrawn too although sometimes it is sort of closed due to inactivity rather than actively withdrawn.

FWIW current usage is:

• Draft: author is still writing this and not yet formally soliciting feedback. In theory a HIP should only stay in this state for a few days or so; right now we have 3 ancient drafts still hanging out that should either be closed or merged and moved to discussion. They are slightly legacy to when only Helium Inc employees were using this repo. They all had write access, so all work just happened inside a single PR
• DIscussion: typos were fixed, now under active consideration

[jamiew]

Just testing a comment hook

[mfalkvidd]

Trying to hook up, ey? ;-)